Psychometric Properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in a Non-Clinical Sample of Children and Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

MENTAL HEALTH
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Psychometric Properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional
Disorders (SCARED) in a Non-Clinical Sample of Children and Adolescents in Saudi
Arabia
This paper was written by three authors such as Arwa Arab, Mogeda EI Keshky,
and Julie Hadwin in the year 2015. The aim of this article is to evaluate the reliability,
and validity of the self-report screen for child anxiety disease (Arab, El Keshky, &
Hadwin, 2016). According to the researcher, the diagnostic and statistical process of
mental infection evaluate little anxiety disease which can produce in the children. This
paper focuses on the SCARED disorder and highlights the psychometric properties of
the SCARED in the non-clinical sample of children in Saudi Arabia. From this paper, it is
observed that the anxiety have numbers of negative impact on the daily life activities of
individuals and it is also linked with low-quality peer relationships.
The author analysed that anxiety symptoms are very less visible in developed
rather than another health disease. Mainly, the researcher used DSM based
questionnaire process for identifying the key factors associated with the SCARED
disorder. From the questionnaire, it is observed that there is a significant positive
relation between anxiety symptoms and parent’s behaviour (Al-Gelban, 2007). The
results of this investigation indicate that self-report anxiety sings reduced with age and
was larger in adolescent women. The investigator also suggested that the SCARED
disorder can be used for identifying the consumers who are at risk of developing
anxiety disease in childhood.
From this paper, I learned the fundamental concept of the SCARED and also
analysed the various kinds of psychometric properties of SCARED in a non-clinical